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I am a toxicon.I made a rash decision coming.I have caused a rash on your skin.

I have levelled grounds.I have made fame worthless.I have toyed with the rich.I shouldn’t have taken the poor,But I made a bargain.

I made friends with death.I became the cheerleader of sicknesses.I drew to myself pictures of flu.If you’re reading this, I didn’t come to you.

I had no choice of my own.I had to do as agreed.I received coins from Hades.And made an enmity with Zeus.I know the world hates me.I know I can’t be forgiven.Neither forgotten.Generations will hear of me.

I am Corona,I apologise for the damage caused.

I’m leaving now;I may return in a few yearsTo remind man what he will soonforget.I will come to remind him that nothing, absolutely nothing matters;But Air, Water, Food and PeopleGoodbye.

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Chapter 1
In the beginning
In the beginning, everything was great, wonderful even. Jessica and Justin started dating. The perfect couple, getting shipped since grade 1. They’re finally together at last. It’s November 10th, 2017, a school day, the day Jessica said yes to Justin. The last time we would see Jessica single, but we didn’t know that at the time, now I’m getting ahead of myself. Let’s go back to November 10th, 2017. Jessica always liked Justin and Justin always liked her. Jessica was always cheerful, she always wore a smile, she was smart as hell, she was one of my best friends and like me she was an outcast. Justin was always everywhere, he wasn’t an outcast but wasn’t popular either, he was always talking to everyone and his best friend was my twin brother, Jax. Now you’re probably wondering what my name is, my name is Julia. Now back to Jessica and Justin. November 10th, 2017 went down in everyone’s calendars as the day the perfect couple became a couple. Jessica and Justin were the cutest couple ever, me, Jax, a guy named Austin and a girl named Ashley made a bet back in grade 2 that Jessica and Justin would get together by grade 8. Now I know we shouldn’t bet on people and their life but it was fun. My and Jessica’s social circle is something you are going to need to know, so here’s our social circle:
Jessica’s and Julia’s social circle
1) Julia (12)
2) Jessica (12)
3) Ashley (12)
4) Austin (12)
5) Justin (12)
6) Jax (12)
Now who’s all together? Well, me and Austin are dating, Ashley and Jax are dating and now Jessica and Justin. Ashley and Austin are twins to. Now Jessica’s dad is in jail with my and Jax’s dad and Austin’s and Ashley’s dad. All of us but Justin have known each other since 1½ years old, we also had a rough past, but Justin he came in kindergarten and he has both parents, that love him unlike us. So, with Jessica and Justin dating there was finally a little light in Jessica’s life.

Chapter 2
November 10th, 2017
November 10th, 2017 is a day I remember like it was yesterday. The day started like any other, it was cold but not to cold and I had a feeling that something good was going to happen. we started the day with French which was normal, with kids yelling, shouting out and not listening or staying in their seats. After French we had social studies, were we listened to our teacher. We had first break after French and social studies. First break was the same has usual, we all went to our lunchrooms, which was me and Austin in Mr. Icemen’s classroom, Jessica and Ashley in Mr. Sharkners classroom and Justin and Jax in Ms. Marks’ classroom. We always went outside for 20 minutes after eating for 20 minutes. While outside we played truth or dare like always and after a while our teacher, Ms. Shamarker, started playing with us. It was fun playing truth or dare with Ms. Shamarker because she was dared to say what she thought about our curriculum and how she really felt about some of us kids. After first break we had gym, we played basketball and after gym I started to feel like nothing good was going to happen. language came after gym, we were working on short stories. I was working with Jessica and Ashley. The story we were writing was about a girl with a secret admirer. It wasn’t till second break something good really happened. Almost everyone goes off school property second break and something good happened, it really happened and when it did we were all in shock even Jessica. It happened, the thing we were all waiting for since grade 1, Justin asked out Jessica and it was amazing, totally unexpected and cute. Everyone’s mouths dropped and me, Jax, Ashley and Austin all screamed, “FINALLY”! After break we had math and science, then we all went home to do homework and think about what would happen if the person we loved for 7 years finally asked us out.

Chapter 3
The perfect couple
Jessica and Justin were the perfect couple. They were going on dates every other Saturday and spending nights at each other houses. They did just about everything together. Jessica would tell me about their dates and about how happy she was. Justin told Jax about how he wouldn’t mess this relationship up and how lucky he was to have found a girl like Jessica. While at school they were ruled the happiest couple at Crantel public school, Jessica, Ashley and I were ruled the longest friendship at Crantel public school. Everything was wonderful, Jessica and Justin were finally together and all the bullies at Crantel public school left. The dream Jessica had since day 1 was finally reality.

Chapter 4
Echo bowl trip
January 12th, 2018, we went to Echo bowl on a school trip. The whole school was there, from grade 3 to grade 8 and our school was the only school there. We all were having fun. Everyone loved bowling but what happened there made us all hate bowling after. Jessica saw something that she wasn’t supposed to see, something no one was supposed to see or hear about. She saw Justin French kiss Alissa. Justin also liked Alissa before he asked out Jessica. Alissa was also one of Justin’s ex-girlfriend’s and with Jessica seeing them French kiss it was twenty times worse.

Chapter 5
Friday January 12th, 2018

When we got back to school from bowling, it wasn’t the same. We all thought Jessica and Justin were happy. That day we found out they weren’t, they were fighting all the time. They just acted liked they were fine in front of everybody. Twenty minutes after we got back, we also found out that Justin got Alissa pregnant and that he was cheating on Jessica for the last two months. Justin liked Alissa more then Jessica and he didn’t think of what Jessica would do after finding out, none of us did. Jessica was upset and now looking back everyone should’ve notice she wasn’t happy. Jessica was always cheerful, and she pretended to be happy. I blame myself for what happen at the end the day that day because I should’ve notice what was going on, I was her best friend and I let her down.

Chapter 6
The ending
That same day at the end of the day, something terrible happened, something no one could believe. Jessica was done with everything and at 2:30 she told all of us. Around 2:20, Jessica took apart her pencil sharpener and took the razor blade with no one knowing. She then asked to go to the bathroom. After 10 minutes I was sent in to check on her and what I saw was so gruesome it was unbelievable. There on the floor was Jessica’s lifeless body just lying there. I ran over to her body and I started crying and screaming and in no time at all the principle heard me and came to the bathroom. The principle, Mr. Ant, was scared himself and he told me, “go get Mrs. Gold, right now”. Mrs. Gold was our secretary. I ran and got her, she then ran back to the office and called the paramedic’s and police. Mrs. Gold also got on the intercom and announced that there was a problem, and no one could leave their classrooms. The police and paramedics arrived in 5 minutes flat. The police found the letter and the paramedics rushed Jessica to the hospital. Our whole class went up 2 minutes after her and her family was already there scared as hell. We were all scared for Jessica’s life and when the doctor came out twenty minutes later and said she was, “gone and I’m so sorry for your loss”, her mother collapsed on her farther and everyone in our class started crying. Jessica was loved by all and when they announced she was dead it was like a little part of everyone died. The police gave us the suicide letter, I read it out loud to everyone. She wrote:

“to whomever this concerns,

I can’t take this any more with school and all this fricking drama. Justin still liked Alissa and she is a month pregnant with his child. I saw him kiss her today while bowling and that is were I had enough. So, good-bye to my friends, family, teachers, classmates and Justin. I will miss all of you and to Justin I still love you, always had and I always will.

Signed,
Jessica”
we were all shocked by what was happening and devastated. This is how all it ends now, after everything this is how it all ended.

Chapter 7
Fifteen years after
Fifteen years after Jessica’s suicide, we all still miss vary much. Ashley and I are supermodels now and still dating each others’ brothers. Justin became a teenage parent and is still with Alissa. Jax and Austin are now famous basketball players and our teachers some went on and taught at different schools and others stayed at Crantel public school. Today would have been Jessica’s birthday, February 14th. Ever since Jessica committed suicide I’ve hated valentines’ day.

In what will across as a really heartbreaking development, a woman has thrown her own stepson inside a well with his legs and hands tied.

It was a classic case of misplaced aggression, of taking the ‘sins’ of the mother out on her innocent son. And, on a four-year-old child, for that matter, who knows next to nothing! And, to imagine that she saw the warning sign early enough but did nothing to save her poor son from the fate that later befell him? That thought is threatening to drown her traumatised mother’s spirit in further despondency.

It must have made a shocking read when the news of the gruesome murder of four-year-old Ritse Micah was broken in Saturday Sun edition of July 13, 2019. The lad, reportedly taken from his sleep on the night of Thursday, June 27, 2019, at Garagu, Kokona Local Government Area of Nasarawa State, was dumped, with his legs and hands tied, into a well in Akwanga Local Government Area of the state. That was the state in which his body was found the following day.

Now, here is more shocking news for the reader: written confession by Mrs Grace Jacob Maisamari, stepmother to the late boy’s mother, has shown that she was the one that masterminded the evil act. And, she did that not because there was anything amiss between him and the boy but simply because there was no love lost between her and his mother. Never has misplaced anger come couched in such heartless act!

How the evil deed was done

The late Ritse is the son of the daughter of the first wife to her husband, Micah Kapechi. She died many years ago after having two children for the man. Her second daughter, Miracle Micah, is the mother of the late boy said to be a love child.

It was after the death of their mother that their father decided to marry Grace who is now cooling her feet at the criminal investigation department of the Nigerian Police headquarters in Lafia after admitting complicity in the death of the boy.

That was after devilish ideas began to fly into her head on how to cause heartbreak and maximum sorrow for his mother with whom she is in no good terms. She confessed that on that fateful day, she had pretended to travel very early to Garaku from Akwanga without her husband’s knowledge or consent but she actually hid somewhere till evening. And when she noticed her husband go out with the boy to deliver a message, she quietly used her own key to open the house without anybody noticing her presence and hid somewhere in the room he usually sleeps.

Shortly afterward, her husband walked in and prepared him for sleep. But when she noticed that he had gone to his room to sleep, she quickly came out of her hiding, grabbed the boy who was deep asleep and headed to Akwanga that night, by a pre-arranged vehicle.

In Akwanga, she tied his legs and hands and threw him alive into a deep well where he died from hypoxemia. What was his offence? The woman confessed that she had no problem with Ritse. He is innocent, she admits, but her grudge is with his mother who has been rude to her since she got married to her father. “I decided to kill the innocent boy due to the attitude of his mother,” she said.

Self-justification and guilt over the murder

However, after carrying out the deed, her heartless ego came under constant haunt of guilt. Her words: “After killing the boy, it dawned on me that I took the matter too far. I was restless but my anger against his mother’s attitude could not stop it from happening. Initially, I felt fulfilled and normal. I slept that night after the incident but the consequence of my action became clear after I was picked up by the police. I felt cold for the first time.”

Destiny appears to have played a wicked one on me at the early stage, she insists, “but I would rededicate the rest of my life to sincerely seek forgiveness. I don’t know what came over me but the mother of this boy is the major problem in my marriage. She has stolen my joy since I got married to her father, it has been from one problem to another,” she lamented. But she would not go into detail on the nature of the so-called “major problem in her marriage” caused by the boy’s mother that could have warranted or justified her to carry out the evil act.

When our correspondent spoke with Miracle, the mother of the late Ritse who have just finished her examinations at the state university in Keffi, he found her inconsolable over her son’s death. According to her, she felt that something bad had happened when she started having some strange feelings she couldn’t explain.

“I was in school,” she said. “My heart was beating. It wasn’t okay with my spirit. So after my exams, I put a call to my father. On picking the call, we exchange greetings and he said we need to talk and he cut the call. After a short while, I called back and he said it was not something we can discuss on phone. He said I should come home. So I prepared and came down to Garaku from Keffi where I am schooling. On getting to my father’s house, some neighbours’ children welcomed me with the sad news of the death of my son.”

The 300 level Sociology student said she could not hold back tears. For several hours, she wept while raining curses on whoever killed her innocent and promising son.

“My son doesn’t deserve such brutality at the age of 4,” she said as she broke into tears again. “He is too innocent for any right thinking person to tie his legs and hands and dump him in the well till he died.” She eventually resigned herself to fate. “I leave everything to God,” she said. “That person will never see peace in his or her life.”

The early warning signs ignored

For the traumatised woman, the warning sign had been there all along, it’s unfortunate that she did not pay any attention until it was too late. She reported that her stepmother’s plan to get rid of her child started a long time ago. She recalled an incident that occurred last year in which her late son suddenly got missing from the house. But he was later found by a riverbank and returned home by a farmer the following morning.

She recalled how it all happened: “I went to buy some things for his school and he asked me to buy him bobo drink. But on getting home, he was nowhere to be found. We searched all around but to no avail, so we resigned ourselves to fate that night. We later reported the case to the police. But thank God, the following morning the boy was found at a river bank by a good farmer and brought back home.”

She said that few days after, her late son told her that it was her stepmother (Grace) that took him to the riverside and threw him there to die. “When my father came back from work, I told him, but he said it was a weighty allegation, adding that he didn’t want any trouble. He asked me to keep mute over the issue. But I told my brother about it.”

From all indications the issue that generated mutual hatred between the boy’s mother and the killer stepmother as to lead to the innocent child’s death, appears to be a longstanding one. “My mother died in 2002 and my father married my stepmother in 2004,” she said. “But since she came, we have no peace in this house. She chased away all my father’s friends and relations. In this area, she is at war with everybody. He chased away all tenants from our house.”

In as much as Miracle finds her stepmother’s heartless act surprising and unbelievable, she regrets not doing something to save the situation when she perceived the early warning signs. Ruminating on Grace’s character and on incident, she said: “there was never a good testimony about her. At a point, I wanted to take my son somewhere to school but my father prevailed on me to leave the boy here. I wanted to take him away because anytime I came home from school, neighbours would tell me about the maltreatments she subjects my son to. Severally, I complained to my father but he loves his wife and equally loves my late son. Therefore there was nothing I could do. He doesn’t want his grandson taken away from him. He always said he doesn’t want the boy to stay away. But now the evil person has taken him away and killed him.”